(EA)<sup>2</sup> provides the capability to model the physical aspects of your IT environment, namely Servers, Mainframes, Firewalls, Disk Drives, etc. You do so by first specifying a model for the node or device and then creating instances of the model representing the physical boxes that live in the data center. You then deploy elements, i.e. software and/or hardware devices, on the hardware by dragging them from the Project Browser onto the instance. If you have a lot of models of the same type, e.g. a lot of different Server Models, for which you would like to capture additional information not provided by (EA)<sup>2</sup>, you can create Metamodels of the Models.
Detailed instructions are provided for creating Servers, but they relate to all of the hardware types.To see a discussion of the various types of hardware you can model in (EA)<sup>2</sup>, go to the (EA)<sup>2</sup> Infrastructure Architecture Diagam page.
The topics below are listed in the suggested reading order.
Server Models
Server Models provide the specifications for your physical Servers.
Servers
Servers are the physical boxes that are in your data center.
Server Metamodels
You can create Server Metamodels to hold addtional tagged values you want to capture on
all your Server Models.
Other Hardware Node Elements
The following types of hardware nodes are modeled in the same fashion and have the same tagged values as Servers, Server Models, and optionally, Server Metamodels.
